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Where Should The Search For Life On Mars Start?
October 20, 2014 by Michael
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Frigid lakes bombarded by UV radiation and boiling, acidic springs are some of the otherworldly Earth environments where scientists plan to hunt for clues to life on Mars.
Funded by a new, five-year NASA grant, the researchers will tour the three ages of Mars on Earth — when Mars was cold, wet and habitable; the transition period when water disappeared; and the modern, dry period. The Mars-like environments include hot springs in California and Yellowstone National Park, permafrost on cold Arctic islands, some of Earth's oldest rocks in Australia, and volcanic lakes and soils in Chile. [Out-of-this-World Photos: Finding Mars on Earth]
"We chose these environments because we want to understand the signature of life on Mars at different times," said Nathalie Cabrol, the project leader and a senior research scientist at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California.
The SETI-led team will scope out "biosignatures," or evidence of life, with instruments similar to those NASA plans to install on the next Mars rover, expected to launch in 2020. The car-size robot is designed to seek out ancient life.
On Mars, the clues could be concealed in rocks more than 3.5 billion years old. If the planet's ancient environment was akin to that of early Earth, then the rover might discover fossils of microbial mats similar to stromatolites, which are some of Earth's oldest fossils. Or primitive microbes could have left behind chemical calling cards, such as the altered minerals created by rock-eating bacteria known as chemolithotrophs. The rover may also find subtle shifts in carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen isotopes, trapped and preserved in rock layers, which can signal the presence of life. (An isotope is an atom of an element with a different number of neutrons.)
Cabrol and her team will practice searching for promising rocks from the air, by scanning sites with a quadcopter or octocopter, she said. They'll also analyze samples in the field with portable instruments, and in a laboratory for more-precise measurements.
"Our goal is not to prove more efficient at finding biosignatures," Cabrol told Live Science. "We want to get metrics and data that will lead us to detection."
By honing their skilles in Earth's extreme environments, the scientists will learn where and how to look for life for when the rover arrives at Mars. The research may also help narrow down the list of best landing sites for the rover.
"We're not saying we're going to detect life, but we're increasing the chances we're going to the right outcrop," Cabrol told Live Science.
The $8 million grant is one of five awarded to seven research groups across the United States to study the origin of life. The teams will be affiliated with NASA's Astrobiology Institute at Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.
Can An Exoplanet Make Age It's Parent Star Age Faster?
October 1, 2014 by Michael
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A nearby star is not acting its age, thanks to the influence of a massive exoplanet.
The close-orbiting alien planet, known as WASP-18b, is apparently disrupting the magnetic field of its host star so much that the object is behaving like a much older star, researchers said.
"WASP-18b is an extreme exoplanet," study lead author Ignazio Pillitteri, of the Instituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)-Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo in Italy, said in a statement. "It is one of the most massive hot Jupiters known and one of the closest to its host star, and these characteristics lead to unexpected behavior. The planet is causing its host star to act old before its time."
The star WASP-18, which lies about 330 light-years away, is about as massive as our own sun. The gas giant WASP-18b weighs in at more than 10 times the mass of Jupiter and completes one orbit around the star in less than 23 hours, leading scientists to classify it as a "hot Jupiter."
WASP-18b's tight orbit has led scientists to estimate that it may have only one million years of life or so remaining before it's destroyed by the parent star.
Pillitteri's team targeted WASP-18 with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and found it to be relatively quiet — a characteristic of older stars. Young stars tend to be more active, with stronger magnetic fields, larger flares and more intense X-ray emission. Stellar activity is connected to rotation, a process that slows with age.
Observations of WASP-18 using Chandra revealed no X-ray emission. This by itself would suggest that the star has an age similar to the sun's 5 billion years, researchers said. However, Pillitteri and his team used other data as well as theoretical models to calculate that WASP-18 is actually just 500 million to 2 billion years old, and thus approximately 100 times less active than a star its age should be.
We think the planet is aging the star by wreaking havoc on its innards," said co-author Scott Wolk, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Massachusetts.
WASP-18b's strong gravitational pull may be disrupting the star's magnetic field, researchers said. The planet's tug exerts forces similar to those imposed on Earth's tides by the moon, but on a much larger scale.
The strength of a star's magnetic field depends on how much the hot gases within the star stir up its interior, a process known as convection. WASP-18 has a convection zone narrower than most stars, making it more vulnerable to the massive tidal forces exerted by WASP-18b, researchers said.
"The planet's gravity may cause motions of gas in the interior of the star that weaken the convection," said co-author Salvatore Sciortino, also of INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo. "This has a domino effect that results in the magnetic field becoming weaker and the star to age prematurely."
The results were published in the July issue of the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.
NASA's Maven Finally Reaches Mars Orbit
September 23, 2014 by mphillips
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After 10 months and 442 million miles, NASA's Maven spacecraft has finally arrived at Mars and entered into its orbit.
The first spacecraft dedicated to exploring Mars' upper atmosphere, scientists hope Maven (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) will give them clues as to why Mars didn't hold onto its water and become a lush planet like Earth.
If all goes as planned, Maven won't be the only spacecraft to enter into Mars' orbit this week.
Another orbiter, this one launched by the Indian Space Research Organization, is expected to reach Mars and enter its orbit on Wednesday.
As engineers and scientists at NASA's mission control center waited anxiously for news to come back from its newest Mars-bound spacecraft, Maven took itself out of its traveling trajectory and began a planned burn that lasted a little more than 30 minutes to insert itself into orbit around Mars. It officially entered the Mars orbit at 10:24 p.m. ET on Sunday.
"Here's a spacecraft hurtling toward Mars and we had no control over it," said John Grunsfeld, an astronaut and associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate. "It's amazing we have the opportunity to build a spacecraft like Maven to learn about Mars. And it worked like clockwork."
Grunsfeld took questions about the Maven mission in an interview on NASA TV just minutes after it was announced that the spacecraft had successfully entered the Martian orbit.
A NASA spokeswoman, giving commentary during the orbit integration, said the spacecraft, which launched on Nov. 18, 2013, had worked well throughout its long journey.
"Everything looks fantastic," she said. "Maven has functioned perfectly since launch and we expect her to continue doing so today."
Moments later, engineers received data from the spacecraft, confirming that it had entered orbit around Mars and had turned off its engines. Cheers and applause erupted in mission control.
Did The Milky Way Galaxy Form From Colossal Crashes?
September 19, 2014 by Michael
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The history of the Milky Way has a new wrinkle.
Scientists used radio telescopes like the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array — a vast array of receivers in Chile — used to probe galaxies within 40 million to 600 million light-years from Earth. After observing dozens of merging galaxies, astrophysics found that many galactic collisions will create disc galaxies similar to the Milky Way, a surprising finding.
Their observations of carbon monoxide in 37 colliding galaxies showed pancake-shaped zones of molecular gas, similar to the shape that disc galaxies — which include spiral galaxies and lenticular galaxies — would assume.
"This is a large and unexpected step towards understanding the mystery of the birth of disc galaxies," lead researcher on the study Junko Ueda, a postdoctoral fellow at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, said in a European Southern Observatory statement.
Before, astronomers thought that only elliptical galaxies could arise from mergers. Simulations from the 1970s, however, concluded that elliptical galaxies should be the most popular type of galaxy in the universe. Yet these odd-shaped entities comprise less than 30 percent of galaxies. The new study could help explain why scientists see so many spiral galaxies like the Milky Way in the universe, according to ESO.
The astronomers' work is the biggest molecular gas study so far, but they said they plan more work to follow up on their research. Astronomers emphasized more observations of older galaxies are required to see if mergers behaved similarly in the young universe.
"We have to start focusing on the formation of stars in these gas discs. Furthermore, we need to look farther out in the more distant universe," Ueda said. "We know that the majority of galaxies in the more distant universe also have discs. We, however do not yet know whether galaxy mergers are also responsible for these, or whether they are formed by cold gas gradually falling into the galaxy. Maybe we have found a general mechanism that applies throughout the history of the universe."
The research was published in the Astrophysical Journal Supplement.
Astronomers Get A Picture of The Milky Way's Galactic Neighborhood
September 8, 2014 by Michael
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A new cosmic map is giving scientists an unprecedented look at the boundaries for the giant supercluster that is home to Earth's own Milky Way galaxy and many others. Scientists even have a name for the colossal galactic group: Laniakea, Hawaiian for "immeasurable heaven."
The scientists responsible for the new 3D map suggest that the newfound Laniakea supercluster of galaxies may even be part of a still-larger structure they have not fully defined yet.
"We live in something called 'the cosmic web,' where galaxies are connected in tendrils separated by giant voids," said lead study author Brent Tully, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii at Honolulu.
Galactic structures in space
Galaxies are not spread randomly throughout the universe. Instead, they clump in groups, such as the one Earth is in, the Local Group, which contains dozens of galaxies. In turn, these groups are part of massive clusters made up of hundreds of galaxies, all interconnected in a web of filaments in which galaxies are strung like pearls. The colossalstructures known as superclusters form at the intersections of filaments.
The giant structures making up the universe often have unclear boundaries. To better define these structures, astronomers examined Cosmicflows-2, the largest-ever catalog of the motions of galaxies, reasoning that each galaxy belongs to the structure whose gravity is making it flow toward.
"We have a new way of defining large-scale structures from the velocities of galaxies rather than just looking at their distribution in the sky," Tully said.
Laniakea, our home in the universe
The new 3D map developed by Tully and colleagues shows that the Milky Way galaxy resides in the outskirts of the Laniakea Supercluster, which is about 520 million light-years wide. The supercluster is made up of about 100,000 galaxies with a total mass about 100 million billion times that of the sun.
The name Laniakea was suggested by Nawa'a Napoleon, who teaches Hawaiian language at Kapiolani Community College in Hawaii. The name is meant to honor Polynesian navigators who used their knowledge of the heavens to make long voyages across the immensity of the Pacific Ocean.
"We live in the Local Group, which is part of the Local Sheet next to the Local Void — we wanted to come up with something a little more exciting than 'Local,'" Tully told Space.com.
This supercluster also includes the Virgo cluster and Norma-Hydra-Centaurus, otherwise known as the Great Attractor. These new findings help clear up the role of the Great Attractor, which is a problem that has kept astronomers busy for 30 years. Within the Laniakea Supercluster, the motions of galaxies are directed inward, as water flows in descending paths down a valley, and the Great Attractor acts like a large flat-bottomed gravitational valley with a sphere of attraction that extends across the Laniakea Supercluster.
Tully noted Laniakea could be part of an even larger structure.
"We probably need to measure to another factor of three in distance to explain our local motion," Tully said. "We might find that we have to come up with another name for something larger than we're a part of — we're entertaining that as a real possibility."
Will Stinky Chemicals Be The Key To Finding Alien Life?
September 5, 2014 by Michael
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If Professor Hubert Farnsworth's "Smell-O-Scope" actually existed, astrobiologists would have pointed it at dozens of alien planets by now.
The Professor's odor-detecting invention, which was featured in several episodes of the animated sci-fi series "Futurama," would be a good life-hunting tool, researchers say, because alien organisms may betray their presence by pumping stinky chemicals into their home planets' skies.
"I joke often that maybe you want to smell for life on other planets instead of look for it with a telescope," Shawn Domagal-Goldman, a scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, said last month during a NASA panel discussion about ancient Earth and habitable exoplanets.
Hunting for biosignatures
Domagal-Goldman and other researchers spend a lot of time thinking about the best biosignatures, or signs of life, to look for in the atmospheres of faraway planets.
Two good candidates are oxygen and methane, both of which disappear from atmospheres without replenishment. While each substance can be created by geological as well as biological processes, detecting both oxygen and methane in an exoplanet's skies simultaneously would be strongly suggestive of alien life, many scientists say.
"They destroy each other," Domagal-Goldman said. "If they're both there together, you know someone is bringing the methane in an atmosphere rich in oxygen, so that's what you're looking for. The most likely explanation is, it's life that's bringing the methane and oxygen to the party."
The methane-oxygen strategy is informed by the biosignatures that currently swirl in Earth's skies: Plants and cyanobacteria generate oxygen, while many other types of bacteria, as well as animals, pump out methane.
But a comprehensive hunt for alien biosignatures should also look deeper into Earth's biological history, drawing further inspiration from the planet's pioneering first organisms, Domagal-Goldman stressed.
Different worlds
Life first appeared on Earth perhaps 3.7 billion years ago and had become indisputably established by 3.5 billion years ago, scientists say. It took a long, long time, however, for the biosphere we're familiar with today to take shape.
Simple microbial life dominated the planet for billions of years, with complex multicellular forms getting a firm foothold just 800 million years ago or so. And while oxygen-producing cyanobacteria may have evolved as early as 3 billion years ago, oxygen apparently didn't start accumulating in the planet's atmosphere until 2.3 billion years ago or so, said Tim Lyons of the University of California-Riverside, who also participated in the NASA panel discussion last month.
So the oxygen-methane strategy would not have picked up signs of life on the early ("Archaean") Earth, even though the planet was teeming with organisms — just as it may result in false negatives when applied to exoplanets as well, researchers said.
But studying the microbes that thrive today in Earth's oxygen-free environments suggests a way to broaden the search for alien life. For example, Archaean life probably released some pretty stinky stuff into the ancient planet's air, such as sulfur-methyl gases, which Domagal-Goldman recalled smelling while walking past a colleague's lab.
"They don't last long in modern-day Earth's environment because they get oxidized," he said. "But if you went back to the Archaean, or any planet without oxygen, and you had life making these gases — which they clearly do; I detected them myself — then they might have built up enough for us to see with a telescope from far away."
Scientists have proposed looking for other biosignatures as well, including industrial pollutants such as cholorfluorocarbons that could be indicators of advanced alien civilizations.
Unfamiliar life
Of course, even looking back to the biosignatures of ancient Earth still involves a very large assumption — that alien life will probably resemble Earth life in important ways.
That would seem to suggest that it will be tough to detect lifeforms vastly different from those of Earth — organisms with exotic and undreamed of metabolic pathways. But Lyons thinks astrobiologists shouldn't view the challenge as insurmountable.
"We have chemical principles, and we hope that those are universal," Lyons said. "Life today is about the flow of electrons amongst bacteria, simple, single-celled organisms. And so if you had a sense for the chemistry on that [alien] planet that you're inferring from an atmosphere, you could start to envision reactions that could lead to that chemistry that could be a source of energy."
Did Scientist Discover Microbial Life Inside A Martian Rock?
August 28, 2014 by Michael
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Scientists have found a strange structure resembling a microbial cell inside a Martian meteorite, but they're not claiming that it's evidence of Red Planet life.
The researchers discovered the microscopic oval object within the Nakhla Mars meteorite, which fell to Earth in Egypt in 1911. While the structure's appearance is intriguing, it most likely formed as a result of geological rather than biological processes, team members said.
"The consideration of possible biotic scenarios for the origin of the ovoid structure in Nakhla currently lacks any sort of compelling evidence," the scientists write in a new study published this month in the journal Astrobiology. "Therefore, based on the available data that we have obtained on the nature of this conspicuous ovoid structure in Nakhla, we conclude that the most reasonable explanation for its origin is that it formed through abiotic processes." [The Search for Life on Mars (A Photo Timeline)]
A cell-like structure
The hollow ovoid is about 80 microns long by 60 microns wide, researchers said — far larger than most terrestrial bacteria but in the normal size range for eukaryotic Earth microbes (single-celled organisms that possess nuclei and other membrane-bound interior "organelles"). The study team is confident that the object is native to the sample and not the result of terrestrial contamination.
The scientists studied the structure using a number of different techniques, including electron microscopy, X-ray analysis and mass spectrometry. This work revealed that the ovoid is composed of iron-rich clay and contains a number of other minerals.
The researchers run through a number of possible formation scenarios in the new study, eventually concluding that the ovoid most likely formed when materials partially filled in a pre-existing vesicle — a vapor bubble, for example — in the rock.
But this supposition doesn't rule out the possibility that Martian lifeforms had something to do with the structure, team members said.
"Despite the extremely biomorphic overall shape of the ovoid, it is highly unlikely that it itself was an organism," said lead author Elias Chatzitheodoridis, of the National Technical University of Athens in Greece.
"However, it could have been formed directly by micro-organisms, or it could trap organic material that came from elsewhere," Chatzitheodoridis told Space.com via email. "That the ovoid is hollow means that there is enough space to accommodate colonies of microorganisms."
Making a firm link to Mars life would require further study and further discoveries, he added.
"We would be happy if we could have found more than one ovoid, with exactly the same texture both in the micro and the nanoscale," Chatzitheodoridis said. "However, we require to open up enough sample in a very careful way. Compelling evidence, though, would be if we could really find many of the same, clearly in a form of a colony, together with chemical and mineralogical biosignatures that are common for terrestrial microbes."
Habitable Martian environments?
Nakhla is a well-studied meteorite — scientists have spotted possible signs of Mars life within it before —and previous research has mapped out its history in some detail. Nakhla's parent rock apparently crystallized about 1.3 billion years ago, Chatzitheodoridis and his colleagues write in the new study, then experienced two shock events that heated it up considerably.
The first of these shocks likely occurred around 910 million years ago and the second 620 million years ago. This latter event, which was triggered by a nearby meteorite strike on Mars, apparently included the flow of hot water through Nakhla's parent outcrop, the authors write. Finally, about 10 million years ago, another impact blasted Nakhla free of Mars, sending it on a looping trip through space that ended with its arrival at Earth in 1911.
Whether or not the Nakhla ovoid has some connection to Martian life, study of the meteorite can help researchers better understand the Red Planet's past (and, perhaps, present) potential to support life, Chatzitheodoridis said.
Martian meteorites contain "important information, and latest work has shown that now one has to look more carefully at them and in finer detail," he told Space.com.
"In our case, it is such work that allowed us to see from a small volume of sample a big story, i.e., that hydrothermal waters have actually acted also in the latest periods of Martian history, even if they were caused by a bolide impact, and that they were capable of initiating a number of complicated processes that resulted in the formation of niche environments which can sustain life, if life [ever] emerged on the planet," Chatzitheodoridis added.
Can Twin Planets Boost The Chance For Alien Life?
August 15, 2014 by Michael
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Alien planets could host life well into their old age if they have companion worlds tugging at them, researchers say.
Such exoplanets could potentially be the longest-lived life-friendly areas in the universe, enduring for up to 10 trillion years, scientists added.
As planets age, they cool, with their hot molten cores solidifying over time. This probably makes them geologically active and therefore less habitable for life as we know it, scientists say. On Earth, life depends on the geological activity of plate tectonics to circulate rocks that can absorb or release carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that absorbs heat. Without plate tectonics, the planet might experience runaway heating or cooling, and thus potentially become uninhabitable.
In a new study, scientists have found that if a world has a companion planet that gravitationally tugs on it, this could prevent that world from cooling, and thus extend its chances of hosting life.
Strange twin worlds
The researchers analyzed red dwarfs stars, also known as M dwarf stars. These stars are up to 50 times dimmer than the sun and up to less than 10 percent as massive. Red dwarfs are the most common kind of star, making up to 70 percent of the stars in the universe, and this fact has made scientists wonder if these red dwarfs might be the best places to look for alien life.
Because there is life nearly wherever there is water on Earth, scientists typically define planets as potentially habitable if their surfaces are warm enough to sustain water on their surfaces. Red dwarfs are cold stars, which means their habitable zones are closer than Mercury is to the sun — sometimes less than 0.1 astronomical units (AU), or one-tenth the average distance from Earth to the sun. The average distance between Earth and the sun is about 93 million miles (150 million kilometers).
Red dwarfs are colder than the sun, which means they burn fuel more slowly and live far longer. Prior research has suggested that the most readily discoverable Earth-size habitable-zone planets are likely to be about 10 billion years old — more than twice the age of 4.6-billion-year-old Earth.
Ordinarily, plate tectonics ends due to cooling long before a planet reaches 10 billion years in age. However, the researchers found that if this old world has a companion planet orbiting a bit farther away from the star, this outer planet can pull the old world into an orbit that will keep it warm enough for plate tectonics.
Rocky companion planet pals
The scientists modeled a rocky planet with the same mass and diameter as Earth's in the habitable zone of a red dwarf just 10 percent of the sun's mass. This red dwarf is about 1,000 times less luminous than the sun, meaning its habitable zone is only about 3 percent of an AU.
The researchers modeled outer planets with masses equal to those of Earth, Neptune, Saturn, Jupiter and larger. They found that the gravitational pulls of outer planets with a variety of masses and orbits can drag an inner rocky planet into an eccentric oval-shaped orbit. This means that the distance of the inner planet from its star changes over time.
"When the planet is closer to the star, the gravitational field is stronger, and the planet is deformed into an American football shape," study co-author Rory Barnes, an astrobiologist and planetary scientist at the University of Washington in Seattle,said in a statement. "When farther from the star, the field is weaker, and the planet relaxes into a more spherical shape."
This constant tidal flexing causes layers inside the planet to rub against each other, producing warmth. This effect, known as tidal heating, is what drives volcanism on Jupiter's moon Io.
"For planets in the habitable zone around low-mass stars, tides raised on the planet by the star can be very important," lead study author Christa Van Laerhoven, a planetary scientist who will soon be a postdoctoral researcher at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics in Toronto, told Space.com. "Tides raised on the habitable zone planet by its star can provide a long-term internal heat source if there is another well-placed planet in the system."
Tidal heating could help keep a rocky planet internally warm and tectonically active in the habitable zone of a red dwarf for the star's lifetime of up to 10 trillion years, or more than 700 times the 13.7-billion-year history of the universe, Barnes said.
"Perhaps in the distant future, after our sun has died out, our descendants will live on worlds like these,"Barnes said in a statement.
The researchers suggested that if astronomers were to find any Earth-size planetsin the habitable zones of red dwarfs, they should follow up with searchers for outer companion planets that might improve the inner world's chance at hosting life. In the future, they also hope to model systems with three or more planets.
Van Laerhoven, Barnes and their colleague Richard Greenberg detailed their findings in the July issue of the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Astronomers Develop New Theories On The Evolution Of Our Solar System
August 12, 2014 by Michael
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Astronomers have traced the growth of Earth's solar system back to its cosmic womb, before the sun and planets were born.
The solar system coalesced from a huge cloud of dust and gas that was isolated from the rest of the Milky Way galaxy for up to 30 million years before the sun's birth nearly 4.6 billion years ago, a new study published online today (Aug. 7) in the journal Science suggests. This cloud spawned perhaps tens of thousands of other stars as well, researchers said.
If further work confirms these findings, "we will have the proof that planetary systems can survive very well early interactions with many stellar siblings," said lead author Maria Lugaro, of Monash University in Australia.
"In general, becoming more intimate with the stellar nursery where the sun was born can help us [set] the sun within the context of the other billions of stars that are born in our galaxy, and the solar system within the context of the large family of extrasolar planetary systems that are currently being discovered," Lugaro told Space.com via email.
A star is born
Radiometric dating of meteorites has given scientists a precise age for the solar system — 4.57 billion years, give or take a few hundred thousand years. (The sun formed first, and the planets then coalesced from the disk of leftover material orbiting our star.)
But Lugaro and her colleagues wanted to go back even further in time, to better understand how and when the solar system started taking shape.
This can be done by estimating the isotope abundances of certain radioactive elements known to be present throughout the Milky Way when the solar system was forming, and then comparing those abundances to the ones seen in ancient meteorites. (Isotopes are versions of an element that have different numbers of neutrons in their atomic nuclei.)
Because radioactive materials decay from one isotope to another at precise rates, this information allows researchers to determine when the cloud that formed the solar system segregated out from the greater galaxy — that is, when it ceased absorbing newly produced material from the interstellar medium.
Estimating radioisotope abudances throughout the Milky Way long ago is a tall order and involves complex computer modeling of how stars evolve, generate heavy elements in their interiors and eventually eject these materials into space, Lugaro said.
But she and her team made a key breakthrough, coming up with a better understanding of the nuclear structure of one radioisotope known as hafnium-181. This advance led the researchers to a much improved picture of how hafnium-182 — a different isotope whose abundances in the early solar system are well known — is created inside stars.
"I think our main advantage has been to be a team of experts in different fields: stellar astrophysics, nuclear physics, and meteoritic and planetary science so we have managed to exchange information effectively," Lugaro said.
A long-lasting stellar nursery
The team's calculations suggest that the solar system's raw materials were isolated for a long time before the sun formed — perhaps as long as 30 million years.
"Considering that it took less than 100 million years for the terrestrial planets to form, this incubation time seems astonishingly long," Martin Bizzarro, of the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, wrote in an accompanying "Perspectives" piece in the same issue of Science.
Bizzarro, like Lugaro, thinks the new results could have application far beyond our neck of the cosmic woods.
"With the anticipated discovery of Earthlike planets in habitable zones, the development of a unified model for the formation and evolution of our solar system is timely," Bizarro wrote. "The study of Lugaro et al. nicely illustrates that the integration of astrophysics, astronomy and cosmochemistry is the quickest route toward this challenging goal."
The researchers plan to investigate other heavy radioactive elements to confirm and refine their timing estimates, Lugaro said.
The abstract of the new study can be found here, while this link leads to the abstract of Bizzarro's companion piece.
Astronomers Appear Puzzled By Deep Space Radio Blast
August 8, 2014 by Michael
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A split-second burst of energy that erupted in deep space is giving astronomers important new clues about a mysterious class of astrophysical phenomena.
Only a handful of these rapid, millisecond-duration events, known as "fast radio bursts" (FRBs), had been detected previously, all of them by a single instrument — the Parkes Observatory in Australia. As a result, some astronomers have speculated that FRBs have local origins.
But the latest burst, which was observed on Nov. 2, 2012 by the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico, puts the lie to that notion, researchers said.
"Our result is important because it eliminates any doubt that these radio bursts are truly of cosmic origin," study co-author Victoria Kaspi, of McGill University in Montreal, Canada, said in a statement. "The radio waves show every sign of having come from far outside our galaxy — a really exciting prospect."
Kaspi is principal investigator of the Pulsar ALFA (PALFA) survey, a search for pulsars — fast-spinning, super-dense objects that emit beams of light (which appear to pulse at a regular interval, because they can be observed only when the pulsar is pointed at Earth). The research team, led by Laura Spitler of the Max Planck Institue in Germany, discovered the new FRB in the PALFA data.
The newly observed burst is the first of its kind discovered by a telescope other than Parkes, researchers said.
"The brightness and duration of this event, and the inferred rate at which these bursts occur, are all consistent with the properties of the bursts previously detected by the Parkes telescope in Australia," said Spitler, who was completing her PhD at Cornell University when the research began.
The short lifetime of FRBs makes it tough to study them; only seven events, including the newest burst, have been recorded since their 2007 discovery. But the new study should help researchers get a better grip on FRBs.
Their presumed extragalactic origins mean that fast radio bursts could provide unprecedented opportunities to study the intergalactic medium — the dust and gas between galaxies — according to the research paper, which was published in the Astrophysical Journal.
By extrapolating how much of the sky was studied and for how long, scientists have calculated that FRBs probably occur roughly 10,000 times a day. Based on this occurrence rate, PALFA is expected to find two to three more FRBs in the coming years.
The source of fast radio bursts remains a mystery that astrophysicists are eager to solve. A number of exotic possibilities include evaporating primordial black holes, merging or collapsing neutron stars and superconducting cosmic strings. Flares from magnetically active neutron stars, known as magnetars, could also be responsible for the events, researchers said.
Extremely bright flashes from pulsars outside the galaxy are another possibility. The research team suggested that FRBs could be pulses that repeat over even longer timescales than anticipated. If this is the case, longer observation times would be required to spot them.
"We cannot be certain that the bursts are non-repeating," the team wrote in the paper. "Detecting an astrophysical counterpart will be an important step in determining whether we expect repeated events."
Can Binary Stars Create Crazy Orbits For Alien Planets?
August 6, 2014 by Michael
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Some of the oddly skewed orbits of many alien worlds may be due to the twin stars they are often found circling, a new study suggests.
In our solar system, the orbits of most planets are nearly circular, orbiting the sun's equator. However, many of the exoplanets astronomers have discovered in the past two decades or so have mysteriously skewed orbits. They may be eccentric — that is, oval-shaped. They could also be inclined — tilted at an angle from the equators of their stars.
One potential explanation for these skewed orbits might be the gravitational influence of a companion star near the host stars of those exoplanets. Although the sun is a solitary star, most stars form in binary pairs, with both stars orbiting each other. In fact, there are many three-star systems as well, and even some that harbor up to seven stars.
Now, astronomers have captured the clearest picture yet of planet-forming disks around binary stars. They found these disks may be wildly misaligned around their stars, hinting that exoplanets may often be found in eccentric or inclined orbits from the moment they are born.
The researchers made this discovery while surveying a series of binary stars using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) of radio telescopes in Chile. ALMA is the largest and most expensive ground-based astronomical project to date.
The scientists focused on the two stars in the young HK Tauri system, which is about 450 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Taurus. These stars are less than 5 million years old and are separated by about 36 billion miles (58 billion kilometers), or 13 times the distance of Neptune from the sun.
Stars and planets form out of vast clouds of dust and gas. As the material in these clouds contracts under gravity, it begins to rotate until most of the dust and gas falls into flattened disks swirling around stars. Eventually worlds are born from these protoplanetary disks.
The star in the pair that looks dimmer, HK Tauri B, appears that way because the protoplanetary disk around it blocks out much of its light. The disk itself, however, can be easily observed by the visible and near-infrared starlight it scatters.
The star that appears brighter, HK Tauri A, also has a protoplanetary disk, but it is tilted in a way that does not block out its star's light. Therefore, the disk cannot be seen in visible light because its faint glow is swamped by the dazzling brightness of its star. This disk does shine brightly in millimeter-wavelength light, however, which ALMA can readily detect. [7 Ways to Discover Alien Planets]
Using ALMA's unprecedented resolution and sensitivity, the researchers successfully measured the rotation of HK Tauri A's disk. This revealed the two disks are tilted with each other by at least 60 degrees. This means that instead of being in the same plane as the orbits of the two stars, at least one of the disks must be significantly misaligned.
"What was surprising to me was how clearly the result — misalignment of the disks — popped out of the data when we were first looking at it," said study author Eric Jensen, an astronomer at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. "That's partly a testament to the high quality of the data from ALMA, but partly a result of just how misaligned the two disks are with each other."
Since material that will eventually form planets is in skewed orbits around these stars, the worlds that emerge from these disks may also end up in eccentric or inclined orbits. "Binary star companions may influence the orbits of planets, possibly explaining some, though not all, of the weird orbits we see among extrasolar planets," Jensen told Space.com.
However, most exoplanets with skewed orbits are not in known binary systems.
"There are almost certainly some of these systems that have low-mass binary companions that haven't been discovered yet, but that won't be the case for all systems," Jensen said. "So while this binary-star-driven mechanism can explain some of the misaligned systems, it can't explain everything. That's an interesting puzzle that people are still working on."
One probable mechanism for what causes exoplanets to have skewed orbits around solitary singleton stars is interactions among the planets in those systems.
"If you form a lot of planets around a given star, especially if their orbits are pretty closely packed together, you are going to have interactions between planets, which can change their orbits," Jensen said. "In fact, even in our own solar system, people think that Uranus and Neptune have been pushed into wider orbits than those in which they originally formed, due to interactions with Jupiter and Saturn."
In the future, the researchers want to look at more binary systems with protoplanetary disks to see how typical or atypical skewed disks are. Jensen and his colleague Rachel Akeson detailed their findings in the July 31 issue of the journal Nature.
Does A Cloudy Alien Planet Help The Existence Of Life?
August 1, 2014 by Michael
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The cloudier an alien planet is, the closer it can get to its star and still remain potentially life-friendly, researchers say.
In fact, clouds might help Earth-like planets remain hospitable to life even when orbiting a sun-like star as closely as the hellish Venus circles the sun in our solar system, the scientists added.
This finding suggests that many alien worlds previously thought to be too hot for life as we know it may actually be habitable, investigators said.
Astronomers have confirmed the existence of more than 1,700 worlds beyond the solar system in the past 20 years, and may soon prove the existence of thousands more such exoplanets. Of key interest are exoplanets in habitable, or Goldilocks, zones, the regions around stars just warm enough to possess liquid water on their surfaces, as there is life virtually wherever liquid water is found on Earth.
Habitable alien planets
The distance at which a planet orbits its star is one factor behind how much light from the star heats up that world's surface. Another factor controlling how much energy a planet gets from its star are clouds in that world's atmosphere, which can reflect light away from a world and cool it down — for instance, clouds account for most of the sunlight reflected away from Earth. [Habitable Zones for Alien Planets Explained (Infographic)]
Now scientists find that on planets that rotate much slower than Earth, clouds form that can help those worlds maintain Earth-like climates, even when they receive levels of light from their stars that would make Earth uninhabitable for life as we know it.
The amount of clouds a planet has and where these clouds are located on that world are primarily controlled by how its atmosphere circulates. This in turn is determined in part by how slowly that planet spins. For instance, the more slowly a planet rotates, the longer both its days and nights are — this increases the difference in temperature between the day and night sides, and to even out this imbalance, the atmosphere will circulate more.
In addition, when a planet spins, masses of air on its surface will rotate as well, a phenomenon known as the Coriolis effect that influences how powerfully major wind patterns such as hurricanes whirl. The faster a world spins, the stronger the Coriolis effect, and the more the atmosphere will separate into multiple bands running parallel to the equator in which the winds circulate in distinct patterns. The slower a planet whirls, the weaker the Coriolis effect, and the less divided the atmosphere will be into distinct regions.
Cloudy with a chance of life?
To investigate the effects of a planet's rotation on its habitability, scientists investigated how three-dimensional models of atmospheric circulation behaved on computer-simulated planets with the same mass and diameter as the Earth. These virtual worlds had rotation speeds ranging from twice as fast as Earth's to 365 times slower than Earth's, and received from about 0.25 to 2.5 times as much light from their stars as Earth does.
On Earth, cloud formation begins when heat from the sun causes water to evaporate. As this invisible water vapor rises, it cools and condenses into clouds of visible water droplets or ice crystals.
The scientists found that on what they considered rapidly rotating planets — ones that rotated about as fast as Earth — the atmosphere broke up into distinct bands, and clouds behaved much like they do on Earth. The habitable zones of these rapidly rotating worlds matched previous calculations for planets in general.
However, slowly rotating planets — ones that spin 100 times slower than Earth or more — had significantly wider habitable zones. They could maintain Earth-like climates even when receiving nearly twice as much light as rapidly rotating planets.
The scientists explained that on slowly rotating planets, the area on the planet that faces its star — the "substellar point" — gets heated for a long time. This causes air to rise from the substellar point.
"Clouds tend to form where air rises because moist warm air is cooled, leading to condensation," said study co-author Dorian Abbot, a geophysicist at the University of Chicago.
Without a strong Coriolis effect to break up atmospheric circulation into distinct bands, more clouds form. At the substellar point, the researchers found cloud cover would be present 90 percent or more of the time, reflecting a significant amount of light away from the planet, Abbot said.
Venus-like planets and life
Intriguingly, "the model finds a habitable climate for a planet with Earth's atmosphere in Venus' orbit with Venus' rotation rate because of increased cloud cover," Abbot told Space.com. In comparison, Venus rotates more than 240 times slower than Earth, and orbits the sun at a distance of less than three-quarters of an astronomical unit (AU), the average distance from Earth to the sun, where it receives nearly twice as much light from the sun as Earth.
However, Venus is a hellish planet that is definitely not habitable. Temperatures on Venus reach 870 degrees F (465 degrees C), more than hot enough to melt lead. This makes the surface of Venus extremely dry — there is no liquid water on its surface because the scorching heat would cause any to boil away. The researchers suggest that Venus once rotated more rapidly, at a rate only about 10 to 100 times slower than Earth's, which helped make it uninhabitable.
The researchers suggest their findings should be checked with other climate models and with more sophisticated cloud models. They detailed their findings in the April 25 edition of the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Astronomers Develop New Technique To Measure Alien Planets
July 30, 2014 by Michael
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Astronomers have made the best-ever measurement to date of the radius of an alien world.
Using observations by NASA's Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes, researchers determined that the exoplanet Kepler-93b is 1.48 times the size of Earth, confirming its status as a super-Earth — a world slightly larger than our own — and allowing scientists to conclude that the planet is very likely composed of iron and rock.
"With Kepler and Spitzer, we've captured the most precise measurement to date of an alien planet's size, which is critical for understanding these far-off worlds," lead author Sarah Ballard, of the University of Washington in Seattle, said in a statement. "The measurement is so precise that it's literally like being able to measure the height of a six-foot-tall person to within three-quarters of an inch — if that person were standing on Jupiter." [The Strangest Alien Planets]
Kepler-93b, which lies about 300 light-years away, orbits a star that's about 90 percent as wide and massive as the sun. The rocky planet circles its host at only one-sixth the distance Mercury orbits the sun, resulting in a likely surface temperature of around 1,400 degrees Fahrenheit (760 degrees Celsius).
Ballard and her team used a new observing technique developed for Spitzer, combined with frequent observations from Kepler, to confirm that Kepler-93b is indeed a planet rather than a false positive.
The two telescopes noted how much the star dimmed as the planet crossed its face. In the visible-light wavelengths observed by Kepler and the infrared wavelengths captured by Spitzer, the signal remained the same.
In addition, Kepler studied the stellar dimming caused by seismic waves within the star, making it one of the lowest-mass targets of astroseismic study. These measurements allowed for a more precise computation of the star's radius, which in turn led to a more refined solution for the planet's width, researchers said.
The combined data reveal that Kepler-93b boasts a diameter of approximately 11,700 miles (18,800 kilometers), with an error of only about 150 miles (240 km) — the approximate distance from Washington, D.C., to Philadelphia.
Combined with Kepler-93b's previously computed mass of approximately 3.8 times that of Earth, the refined radius allowed scientists to calcuate that the planet's density is nearly twice that of Earth. This implies that iron and rock dominate the composition of Kepler-93b, researchers said.
The planet's temperature and proximity to its star make it unlikely that Kepler-93b could hold on to gases at its surface. However, based on its physical measurements, Ballard and her team found a 3 percent chance that it could contain an extended atmosphere.
"Ballard and her team have made a major scientific advance while demonstrating the power of Spitzer's new approach to exoplanet observations," said Michael Werner, Spitzer's project scientist.
Spitzer may not be able to keep making such measurements for much longer. In May, a NASA senior review panel recommended ending the mission, which launched in 2003, unless additional funding can be found.
The research was published in the Astrophysical Journal.
Can A New Test Prove If Voyager Is In Interstellar Space?
July 29, 2014 by Michael
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A new test could determine once and for all whether NASA's Voyager 1 probe has indeed entered interstellar space, some researchers say.
While mission team members declared last year that Voyager 1 reached interstellar space in August 2012, not all scientists are sold. Two researchers working with Voyager 1 have drawn up a test to show whether the spacecraft is inside or outside of the heliosphere — the bubble of solar particles and magnetic fields that the sun puffs around itself.
The scientists who came up with the test predict that Voyager 1 will cross the current sheet — a huge surface within the heliosphere — at some point within the next one to two years. When that happens, Voyager team members should see a reversal in the magnetic field surrounding the probe, proving that it is still within the heliosphere. If this change doesn't occur in the next two years or so, then Voyager is almost certainly already in interstellar space, researchers said.
"The proof is in the pudding," George Gloeckler of the University of Michigan, lead author of the new study detailing the test, said in a statement. "This controversy will continue until it is resolved by measurements."
Scientists have recently made measurements that seem to bolster the belief that Voyager is in interstellar space. Researchers measuring data from a solar eruption that shook the particles around Voyager 1 found that the density of the probe's surroundings was much higher than earlier measurements, when it was thought to be inside the heliosphere.
Because of this difference, some team members have come to the conclusion that Voyager 1 is, in fact, outside of the heliosphere. (While particle densities are higher in the inner solar system than they are in interstellar space, this is not the case at the extreme outer reaches of the heliosphere, scientists said.)
Voyager 1 has measured cosmic rays and other signs indicating that it may have passed into interstellar space, it still hasn't detected the predicted magnetic field change, Gloeckler pointed out. He expects that the polarity reversal may happen in 2015.
"If that happens, I think if anyone still believes Voyager 1 is in the interstellar medium, they will really have something to explain," Gloeckler said in the statement. "It is a signature that can't be missed."
The developers of the new test think Voyager 1 is moving faster than the solar wind, meaning that it will cross over parts of the current sheet where the magnetic field reversal will happen. This data could prove that the probe is inside the heliosphere, according to a statement from the University of Michigan and the American Geophysical Union.
Other scientists working with Voyager also welcome the test.
"It is the nature of the scientific process that alternative theories are developed in order to account for new observations," Ed Stone, NASA's Voyager project scientist, said in a statement. "This paper differs from other models of the solar wind and the heliosphere and is among the new models that the Voyager team will be studying as more data are acquired by Voyager."
Voyager 1 and its twin Voyager 2 launched to space in 1977 to study the planets of the solar system. Voyager 2 is still in communication with Earth and is expected to continue on, potentially entering into interstellar space a few years from now.
The new test, detailed in a study by Gloeckler and his co-author Len Fisk of the University of Michigan, has been accepted for publication in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
Astronomers Find Alien Planet With The Longest Year
July 24, 2014 by Michael
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A newfound alien planet is one for the record books.
The alien planet Kepler-421b — which crosses the face of, or transits, its host star from Earth's perspective — takes 704 Earth days to complete one orbit, and thus has the longest year known for any transiting alien world, researchers said. (For comparison, Earth orbits the sun once every 365 days, and Mars completes a lap every 780 days.)
"Finding Kepler-421b was a stroke of luck," study lead author David Kipping, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said in a statement. "The farther a planet is from its star, the less likely it is to transit the star from Earth's point of view. It has to line up just right." [10 Exoplanets That Could Host Alien Life]
To be clear, Kepler-421b does not have the longest year of any known alien planet. Many nontransiting worlds have much more far-flung orbits, including the gas giant GU Piscium b, which takes about 160,000 years to complete a lap around its host star.
Kepler-421b, which is about the size of Uranus, is located about 1,000 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Lyra. It was spotted by NASA's Kepler space telescope, which launched in March 2009 to hunt for transiting exoplanets by noting the tiny brightness dips caused when they cross in front of their stars.
Kepler has found nearly 1,000 alien worlds to date and has flagged more than 3,000 other "candidates" that still need to be confirmed by follow-up observations or study. Mission team members expect that at least 90 percent of these candidates will eventually turn out to be bona fide planets.
The spacecraft suffered a glitch in May 2013 that ended its original mission, but NASA recently signed off on a new mission, called K2, that will keep Kepler hunting for exoplanets, in addition to other cosmic bodies and phenomena.
Most of Kepler's finds thus far are worlds that orbit relatively close to their parent stars, since such planets transit relatively frequently. The instrument has generally required three transits to conclusively identify an exoplanet, but Kepler-421b was detected after it crossed its host star's face just twice, researchers said.
Kepler-421b circles its parent star, which is cooler and dimmer than Earth's sun, at an average distance of 100 million miles (160 million kilometers), researchers said. This places the exoplanet beyond its solar system's "snow line" — the boundary between rocky and gaseous planets. (Beyond the snow line, ice grains glom together to form gas giants, such as Jupiter and Saturn.)
Gaseous planets often don't remain beyond the snow line, however. Astronomers have discovered many "hot Jupiters" — giant worlds that have migrated inward significantly over time and now complete an orbit in just a few days (or, in some cases, a matter of hours).
In fact, Kepler-421b's lack of movement makes it remarkable, Kipping said.
"This is the first example of a potentially nonmigrating gas giant in a transiting system that we've found," he said.


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Come one, come all to Programming Board's second annual spring carnival on April 26 featuring a ferris wheel, 100-foot slide, a contestant from America's Got Talent, live music, food, and more.
This year's Spring Carnival, hosted by Programming Board, is going to be huge. We're talking ferris wheel-huge. 100-foot slide huge.
Join Programming Board for a day filled with fun, food, and prizes on Saturday, April 26, from 5:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. on the Westchester Campus.
This year's carnival will feature a ferris wheel and 100-foot slide (but we already told you that), funnel cakes and more food, games, and tons of entertainment including…
Nick Pike
(From America's Got Talent!) Nick Pike's show is a combination of juggling, acrobatics, and fast-paced comedy, hilarious audience participation, and stunts so dangerous no one else in the world performs them. Check him out!
Gary Johnson
Singer/songwriter Gary Johnson, who was nominated for 2013 Musician of the Year, is a musical entertainer whose highly-interactive, 100% text request-driven show has taken the college market by storm. His discography includes several albums with members of The Fray, Seether, Breaking Benjamin, Boston, and more; as well as a significant contribution to the soundtrack of a feature film scheduled for national release in 2014. Hear more.
Music provided by **DJ Lora**
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Outside guests can attend the event for $10 and children ages 0-12 for $3.
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Here's the mini-cherry on top of the regular cherry on top of the sundae of awesomeness that is your life. NPH is coming to IAS so why don't you suit up and prepare for what's sure to be a legendary night on October 29. Challenge accepted?
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On October 22, get a pink manicure, t-shirt, or even hair extension, as Colleges Against Cancer hosts Believe in Beauty to celebrate inner and outer beauty and raise awareness and funds for breast cancer.
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NBC Fading
07/31/07 at 09:04 AM ET | Comments (0)
from the Vancouver Province,
Turn out the lights. The NBC-NHL party is just about over. The U.S. TV network has one year plus an option left on its deal with the hockey league and with numbers sinking faster than the Lusitania the rats are already jumping ship.
The NHL on NBC now makes "Joanie Loves Chachi" look like an Einstein-like programming decision.
In response, the network has now cancelled its studio show and has reduced three games on Saturday to just one on Sunday.
Gone are Brett Hull, Bill Clement and Ray Ferraro.
"Of course I was disappointed," says Ferraro. "Three minutes into the call and you know you've got to start earning a living some place else."
read on & some HNIC news too…
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Staying Sharp
07/31/07 at 09:00 AM ET | Comments (0)
from the StarPhoenix,
Windsor has become a summer hotspot for some in the hockey business.
From Europe, the United States and Canada, Bob Allen welcomes a new group of students each week to his Maximum Edge shop to get the ins and outs on skates.
"A lot of people don't realize what goes into skate sharpening, from moms and dads to professionals," said Washington Capitals head equipment manager Brock Myles. "I always want to improve myself and know different techniques and different systems."
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Phoenix Talking With Ballard
07/31/07 at 08:54 AM ET | Comments (0)
from the Arizona Republic,
Discussions are continuing between the Coyotes and restricted free agent defenseman Keith Ballard, whom General Manager Don Maloney calls "a priority player right now."
Maloney said the talks are not antagonistic, and that one of the snags is the length of the contract, but that the financial terms are still being hammered out.
"I would say we're in the preliminary stages of getting a feel of where we each want to go with this thing," Maloney said. "I like Keith. He's going to be an important part of our team, but like anything else, we have to make a deal that makes sense to us…."
continued... including the Yotes are about $5 million below the salary cap floor…
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The Next Offer Sheet?
07/31/07 at 08:38 AM ET | Comments (0)
from the Sun-Sentinel,
With a wide gap separating the Panthers and restricted free agent center Stephen Weiss in contract negotiations, at least other three teams have inquired about signing him to an offer sheet, Weiss' agent, Pat Morris, said Monday.
"Not to get into the parameters of it, but we're talking about a long-term deal and there seems to be a major difference in how they view Stephen as compared to Nathan Horton," Morris said. "That's why we're not signed."
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Avery In Shock
07/31/07 at 08:33 AM ET | Comments (0)
from Larry Brooks of the NY Post,
The Post has learned that in addition to referring to Avery as, "a reasonably effective player as well as a detriment to the team," in the team brief that was presented to the arbitrator, Ranger management also said:
"Avery is not a mature player. He plays, at times, like an individual rather than a member of a team. This is sometimes referred to as an inability to see the ice, and in Avery's case this seems to fit with his overall approach to the game."
Understand. These are the words chosen to represent Rangers management's view of Avery's worth….
"I have no idea what to say," Avery, who went into the hearing seeking $2.6M, wrote in an e-mail to The Post following the hearing in Toronto. "I don't know what this was about.
"I'm shocked."
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Ticket Situation In Nashville
07/31/07 at 08:24 AM ET | Comments (0)
from the Tennessean,
Almost two weeks after a daylong rally generated the sale of 726 season ticket equivalents for the Predators, the team continues to garner interest but is still short of last year's total.
Since the July 19 event at Sommet Center the Predators have sold an average of 20 a day, according to Steve Violetta, the team's executive vice president of business affairs….
The season ticket renewal rate is about 73 percent. Historically, Violetta said, it's from 82 percent to 88 percent, so at least an additional 10 percent in renewals should come.
New season ticket sales are at 2,100 since the sales push begin in March, when the Preds were heading to the playoffs.
The Tennessean also has a story regarding the local investor group trying to purchase the Predators…
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Wing Jr. High Marketing Class Brings In The Big Guns
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07/30/07 at 11:14 PM ET | Comments (0)
I told Tommy, our Dive apologist and defender of transvestites, this morning that the key to finding a solution to a particularly troublesome problem is admitting the problem in the first place. It's just such advice that has hockey fans from all corners seeking me out for guidance. I'm not bragging. Just, you know, keeping it real.
So, you can imagine just how stunned I was this evening to see that, along with Tommy, the Wings are following my sage advice.
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Lowe Playing By The Rules
07/30/07 at 10:44 PM ET | Comments (0)
from Spector at Fox Sports,
Several hockey pundits and bloggers have echoed Burke's words, accusing Lowe of screwing up the player salary structure with his inflated offers for Penner and his earlier attempt to sign Buffalo's Thomas Vanek.
Lowe has also been called hypocritical for engaging in the same wild spending that big-market teams under the previous labor agreement engaged in which once threatened small-market clubs like the Oilers.
Regardless of the criticism, Lowe is doing what he's entitled to do under the collective bargaining agreement. Sure, the offers to Penner and Vanek were pricey, but Lowe has the available cap space, the willingness to use it, and offered what he believed would be enough to pry those players away from their respective teams.
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Forget ESPN
07/30/07 at 10:08 PM ET | Comments (0)
from Ray Slover at the Sporting News,
Unless I see something that tells me otherwise, I'd rather see the NHL leave games on NBC and Versus. Yeah, an ESPN connection would raise the league's public-relations image. And if NBC wants out of the deal, the NHL is right to do something to assure its TV presence on a high-level U.S. broadcast outlet, preferably one available to the highest number of viewers. Free TV, rather than cable.
Hard-core fans aren't the NHL's primary concern. They are hooked and in the creel. It's casual fans the league needs to grow its base and popularity. And realigning with the magical machine that is ESPN would seem a bonanza in the making.
Nah. Leave the games on Versus. Better yet, go through with the proposed NHL Network. It's better than being a second citizen on ESPN.
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Grading The Northeast Division
07/30/07 at 09:55 PM ET | Comments (0)
from Wes Goldstein of CBS Sportsline,
The first-place Buffalo Sabres lost two of their best players, and the Stanley Cup finalist Ottawa Senators fired their general manager and will have a new coach, but both teams will look a lot like this year, which should be enough to separate them from the division pack.
Early returns make Toronto look to be the best of the Northeast also-rans, which isn't difficult since the Canadiens and the Bruins seem to be selling only hope these days.
read on for the grades of the teams in the Northeast…
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Josh Fields was going to finish the game in the ninth. Instead, he had to leave the game with an injury.
After getting an out to end the eighth, the righthander came on to warm up for the ninth, but he was forced to exit with a muscle strain in his right forearm. The severity of the injury was unknown right after Saturday's game.
"(You're concerned) anytime a guy comes out of the game with an arm injury," Bo Porter said. "It's too early to tell, right here, right now. I haven't had a chance to talk with the doctor, but it's definitely something that we are concerned about. He's been throwing the ball great. But if you have to go out to the mound and he tells the trainer that he feels discomfort in his forearm, that is reason to be concerned."
Ever since the Astros called him back up to the team from Triple-A on May 14, Fields has given up only two earned runs in 14.2 innings over 14 appearances (1.23 ERA), In that time, he has 22 strikeouts to only three walks.


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Date: February 27, 2013
by: Josh Siegel | Staff writer
EAST COUNTY — For the last seven years, Adler Group, a Miami-based commercial real-estate company, has owned a 22-acre parcel of land on the southeast corner of State Road 70 and Lockwood Ridge Road.
It's the site of an abandoned Winn-Dixie that still sits untouched from a time before Adler Group bought the property.
Now, under the name West Lakes Plaza, Adler Group plans to build a 100- to 200-unit apartment complex on the back end of the property while selling frontage space to commercial buyers such as a gas station, bank, fast-food restaurant or even a sit-down diner.
The Winn-Dixie will finally be demolished.
Bob Smither, Adler Group president, hopes to get approval to build the multi-family apartment complex by the end of fall.
The land use on the back end of the property would have to be changed from commercial to multi-family.
Smither said he's already gotten interest for the front part of the lot, which is approved for commercial use.
"We don't see this area having a huge amount of business growth, but we expect Bradenton to become a better alternative for accommodating increased traffic that would come from this," Smither said.
The garden-style, two- to three-story apartments, which will cover two-thirds of the land, will be geared toward the middle class and include amenities such as a pool and gym, Smither said.
He doesn't expect crews to break ground on the project until late 2012, at the earliest, and he said he'd be comfortable starting construction later, in the first or second quarter of 2014, as well.
Adler is trying to find one- to two-acre owners, such as a convenience store.
Smither wants a restaurant, either fast food or a sit-down, to take up another nine acres.
Behind the commercial property, Adler will build a retention pond for surface run-off.
"The economy wasn't ready for this before, so we were happy to sit on it," Smither said. "It's ready now."
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Wednesday, May 21, 2014
The familiar sweet creaminess of rice pudding, made extra special with fragrant rose water and cardamom.
Guest Picks: Will Eno
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Playwright Will Eno was on the Leonard Lopate Show to talk about "The Realistic Jonses," his play on Broadway. He also told us about his baseball allegiances and his questionable favorite comfort food.
Guest Picks: Willie Randolph
Friday, May 16, 2014
Former Yankees second baseman and former Mets manager Willie Randolph was on the Leonard Lopate Show, talking about his life in baseball. He also told us about his love of fishing. Find out what else he's a fan of!
Guest Picks: Michael Mayer
Thursday, May 15, 2014
Director Michael Mayer was on the Leonard Lopate Show to talk about "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," along with the show's star. Neil Patrick Harris. Mayer also told us what he's been reading, watching, and eating lately.
Tributes: Malik Bendjelloul
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
The musician from Detroit known as Rodriguez had produced only 2 albums in the early 1970s before he vanished from the music scene. Many assumed he was dead. But meanwhile his music went on to inspire many in South Africa, where he became something of a superstar. On a trip to Cape Town in 2006 the Swedish filmmaker Malik Bendjelloul uncovered Rodriguez' story, and eventually, he found Rodriguez – and the result was what would become the Oscar-winning documentary, "Searching for Sugarman." Malik Bendjelloul was recently found dead in Stockholm. He was 36. You can hear his 2012 conversation with Leonard and Rodriguez.
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Wednesday, May 14, 2014
New York Times chief wine critic Eric Asimov was on the Leonard Lopate Show recently to talk about wine and food pairings, along with his collaborator Florence Fabricant. He also told us about his love old country music and cream biscuits. Find out what else he's a fan of!
Guest Picks: Florence Fabricant
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
New York Times food writer Florence Fabricant was on the Leonard Lopate Show to talk about food and wine pairings with her collaborator Eric Asimov. She also told us what she's been reading recently and her somewhat unusual favorite comfort food.
Recipe: Chimichurri Hanger Steak
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Terroir, or sense of place, helps to define character and flavor in food as well as wine. Malbecs from Mendoza pair perfectly with Argentinian steak on a grill. The meat echoes the density of the wine—a mix of sweetness, earthiness, and minerality.
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Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Spaghetti with lobster is a dish that either red or white wine will complement, but rosé is recommended.
Recipe: Fettuccine with Mushroom Ragù
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This rich pasta sauce, made with cremini mushrooms, goes well with barberas, which tend to have an earthy profile, with dark, fruity chords, sometimes with notes of black truffle.
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This thick, rib-sticking soup is the perfect cold-weather complement for Châteauneuf-du-Pape or other wines from the southern Rhône.
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Thursday, May 01, 2014
Santino Fontana was on the Leonard Lopate Show recently to talk about his role as Moss Hart in "Act One." (A role he shares with Tony Shalhoub.) He also told us that he's a fan of soup. Find out what else he's a fan of!
Guest Picks: Tony Shalhoub
Thursday, May 01, 2014
Tony Shalhoub was on the Leonard Lopate Show to talk about his Tony-nominated performance as Moss Hart in "Act One." (A role he shares with Santino Fontana.) He also told us what he listens to when he's feeling nostalgic.
Recipe: Melissa Clark's Pan-Fried Asparagus with Scallions, Lemon, and Fried Eggs
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Makes 2 to 4 servings
If you can find ramps, use those in place of the scallions.
1/4 cup (1/2 stick) unsalted butter
1 bunch scallions (about 4 ounces), whites and greens separated and thinly sliced
3 thin lemon slices, each round cut into eight wedges
3/4 teaspoon kosher salt, plus additional, for seasoning
1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper, plus additional, for seasoning
1 bunch asparagus (about 1/2 pound), trimmed and cut into 2-inch pieces
4 large eggs
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2 center-cut bone-in pork chops, about 1 1/2 inches thick
Kosher salt, for seasoning
Freshly ground black pepper, for seasoning
2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
2 tablespoons finely chopped shallot
3 anchovy fillets, finely chopped
1/4 cup chicken stock
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Tributes: Paul Robeson, Jr.
Monday, April 28, 2014
Paul Robeson, Jr. had the deeply resonant voice of his father, as well as the tall build of the former actor, singer, and civil rights activist. And he spent a lifetime working to preserve that legacy. He not only wrote two books about his father, but created an archive of his writings and films at Howard University, and accepted a Grammy on his behalf in 1998. Paul Robeson, Jr. died at the age of 86. Leonard last spoke with him in August of 2001.
Tributes: Alistair MacLeod
Friday, April 25, 2014
The Herald of Glasgow called Alistair MacLeod was "one of the greatest living writers in English." That's despite the fact that the Canadian's output was relatively small. He only published one novel, No Great Mischief, (which he wrote over the course of 13 years), and fewer than two dozen short stories (which were all collected in the volume, Island). Rugged Cape Breton was his emotional heartland, and where he set most of his fiction. A perfectionist, he explained, "I take a lot of time thinking about what I'm writing." He died recently at the age of 77. And you can hear Leonard's interview with him from January, 2001.


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EU institutions accused of doing nothing to free themselves from dependence on MicrosoftSubmitted by Roy Schestowitz on Thursday 27th of March 2014 03:36:51 PM Filed under
The European Commission and European Parliament are doing nothing to rid themselves of their dependance on Microsoft, two lobby groups said Wednesday, Document Freedom Day.
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and Open Forum Europe urged EU institutions to support open standards in an open letter to Giancarlo Vilella, president of the European Parliament's Directorate-General for Innovation and Technological Support. He also chairs the body that coordinates IT activities for government agencies including Parliament, the Commission and the Council of the E.U.
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Today in Linuxland a dual-booter is reporting that his latest Windows update deleted his GRUB boot loader and turned on secure boot. Bruce Byfield says Ubuntu's conflicts with the community are less about the issues and more about user disappointment. And finally, lots of sites are reporting that a new browser has added Linux support.
Windows 8 Update Might Delete GRUB2 and Set UEFI to Secure BootSubmitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Wednesday 26th of March 2014 12:20:37 PM Filed under
A user who was dual-booting Xubuntu and Windows 8 has reported that one of the latest updates for Windows 8 has actually deleted the GRUB and switched UEFI to secure boot.
Linux users are not strangers to the problems caused by dual-booting. It's a well-known fact that if you install Windows on a PC or laptop that already has a Linux operating system it will delete the boot loader. It can be fixed easily, but the GRUB, for example, recognizes Windows operating systems and integrates them so that the user is not affected.
A Linux and Windows 8 user has reported on Reddit that one of the updates performed by Microsoft's operating system deleted the GRUB boot loader and set UEFI to secure boot. Moreover, after he restored GRUB2 (which is done pretty easily, as illustrated in our tutorial) now there are three entries besides the Linux one.
Microsoft's Website Thinks That All Linux Systems Are Windows 8.1Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Wednesday 26th of March 2014 11:53:28 AM Filed under
Microsoft is not quick to recognize that other operating systems exist besides Windows 8.1, so its website says that you are running Windows 8.1 no matter what operating system you are using.
It will be a cold day in hell when Microsoft is held in high regard by the Linux community, and the main reason for this problem is the arrogance that it displays every chance it gets.
A Reddit user has discovered that, if you access a Windows page that shows you what kind of operating system you are using, it will always display Windows 8.1. Even if you access the website from an Android or iOS device, you will get the same answer.
Microsoft shipping new Surface Pro 2 tablets with wrong processor?Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Tuesday 25th of March 2014 08:05:19 PM Filed under
The buyer had ordered a Surface Pro 2 128GB tablet just to realise that it was an older model. The buyer was assured that she will be getting the new tablet with the new processors very soon. After sometime, she contacted Microsoft and was told that the new models were now shipping but yet again she received a Surface Pro 2 with an i5-4200 processor!
The customer got to know that Microsoft had been receiving a string of complaints the previous week about customers getting i5-4200 powered tablet instead of i5-4300 processors.
Meet Xubuntu, For Life Beyond Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) Windows XP OS !Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 25th of March 2014 10:20:09 AM Filed under
Xubuntu is a distribution of Ubuntu, which uses the same architecture and software repositories as the mainstream Ubuntu. The only difference is that in the regular Ubuntu distribution, it uses a GUI called Unity, which is much more Mac OSX like, whereas Ubuntu uses XFCE which resembles a prettier version of XP. Alternatively, you could also check out Linux Mint, which pretty much feels exactly like Vista, but I stick to Xubuntu due to better Cannonical support – the People behind Ubuntu). Xubuntu is incredibly stingy on resources, and can run smoothly on a Pentium 4 or higher with a measly 512MB of RAM. Recommended specs being any Dual Core Intel/AMD CPU with 1GB of RAM.
Microsoft should fear Android on the desktopSubmitted by Roy Schestowitz on Tuesday 25th of March 2014 03:58:30 AM Filed under
Android seems to be everywhere these days and that includes the desktop. Yes, a version of Android is being developed as a desktop replacement for Windows. LinuxInsider examines Android-x86 RC 1 and finds that it's coming along nicely. But can it really replace Windows? The skeptics will say no, but I think it can...eventually.
An Indecent Proposal: Microsoft and Red Hat?Submitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Monday 24th of March 2014 10:15:00 PM Filed under
Bloggers have been chewing on a suggestion that Microsoft buy Red Hat. The problem is that "Microsoft tends to do best when people have no choice, and consequently has gotten used to treating customers badly," Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack pointed out. "Now people avoid them unless they are absolutely necessary, so the day Microsoft buys Red Hat is the day many people switch distros."
Meeting Windows User Expectations With LinuxSubmitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Monday 24th of March 2014 08:25:09 PM Filed under
Having said that, I understand that the majority of these hospital machines are part of an in-house intranet. I also understand that the software needed for these purposes is expensive and complex. Upgrading the OS and the software ain't gonna be cheap. But even in the fairly safe confines of an intranet, all it takes is one careless user to insert an infected flash drive. You think that doesn't happen? Take a few minutes and google "Stuxnet."
Indian Banks may switch to Linux, rather than taking extended Windows XP SupportSubmitted by Roy Schestowitz on Monday 24th of March 2014 08:44:44 AM Filed under
As we have reported you earlier that Microsoft is pulling out their Windows XP support after April 8 2014. Since a vast majority of bank ATMs around the world currently runs on Windows XP, but if they'll continue sticking to it after the deadline, then they'll be exposed to all kinds of security threats, as Microsoft will no longer provide the security patches thereafter.


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- Mr. Obvious May 23, 2012
Cool videos are cool videos, but wow is this show annoying. Tosh.O ripoff but not nearly as entertaining.
- ThatDude May 23, 2012
Rampage is the man
- summit May 23, 2012
this show is stupid rob dyrdek needs to grow up. i dont necessarily blame him for making such a stupid show. i blame the kids who watch this crap
- kick2daliver May 23, 2012
tosh.0 ripoff? Thats like saying Tosh.0 is ripping off America's funniest home video's
- rawforce May 23, 2012
I was thoroughly entertained.. for 20 mins.
- perulives May 23, 2012
Well.. tosh.o was the first tv show to focus on internet videos circulating the web and then proceeding to make fun of them. This is pretty much the exact same thing except he shares the show with 2 other people that are usually useless commentary
- velkabila May 24, 2012
who cares about tosh.0 vs this show vs that show…. clips were funny slampage was funny… thats it
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Thank Primus he lost consciousness before hitting the cyber matter. I'm assuming glowing blue innards means his frame is still performing certain tasks before it completely gives out. But still, I'm going to assume Bee was alive for 5 or so seconds before dying. That's 5 seconds of pure agony. That's what broke my heart the most.